Don’t Recognize the Taliban Government
Two years after taking Kabul, the Taliban are consolidating their control of Afghanistan even as they remain mostly shunned by...
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The Tyranny of Fear in Tajikistan
On July 4, a group of 10 U.N. experts – including special rapporteurs whose mandates cover human rights defenders, religious...
Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations on Counterterrorism–A Perilous, Uphill Challenge
Seventeen years after the adoption of the UN General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS), the United Nations negotiated the eighth...
Why are over 70% of North Korean defectors female?
Every day, news about North Korea is broadcast to the world ― updates on ballistic missile launches, nuclear threats and...
U.N chief calls for ‘surge in diplomacy’ to denuclearize Korean Peninsula
The U.N. chief hailed the Korean War armistice as the “foundation” of peace on the Korean Peninsula on the 70th...
Tajikistan’s Pamiris: Persecuted, disappeared, and forgotten by the world
Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of...
The Cost of Consensus in the Eighth Review of U.N Global Counterterrorism Strategy
On 22 June, member states prioritized consensus adoption of the United Nations’ (UN) eighth biennial Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy review resolution...
Criminal Complaint Against Russian Military Filed In Germany
End of June 2023, two human rights organizations filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office on...
Incursion of foreign private security companies, violation of state sovereignty in Africa, Middle East
Wagner’s recent rebellion against the Russian government drew attention to the problem of the proliferation of private security and military...
Tajikistan: U.N experts deplore criminal proceedings against human rights defenders
GENEVA (4 July 2023) – UN experts* today urged Tajikistan to show genuine commitment to improving the situation of human...
